Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.
If you’re going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don’t need to be friends.
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.
I liked Stanley Kubrick from the start. He had a warm, benign nature and offered himself to you as a friend and ally. He seemed to possess no airs or attitudes, neuroses, or predilection towards tantrums.
‘Chasing Amy’ was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did ‘Big Daddy’ and you’re the girlfriend or you’re the best friend. I wasn’t getting the Nicole Kidman roles.
Blood is thicker than water, so the fact that I have my sister always with me, it’s like you always have someone who’s your best friend and always have someone who has your back. You can always trust your family, and I’m lucky to have that.
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
If one app or news site or friend gets your attention, that means something or someone else loses it. It comes out of our sleep, our time with family or our reflective time with ourselves.
My friend Paul Ryan talks about fiscal responsibility, but voted to put two wars on a credit card.
I’ve got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.
When I was a kid I feel lonely, I have not many friends. If you make a movie, then you can work with different kinds of people and make different kinds of friend. That’s very important to me.
I’ve always believed that a goal in life is not to own a boat but have a friend with a boat.
I’d asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, ‘Well, what do you love most?’ That’s how I started painting money.
You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend.
I’ve known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don’t know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
People think just because I’m from the Middle East, I’m an expert on the Middle East. So, like, I got a friend, like, any time the gas prices go up, he’ll always ask my opinion about it.
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Bill Justis was a saxophone player, good musician, arranger, and friend of mine who had a big hit called ‘Raunchy.’
I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews’ greatest friend.
I ran into my old friend Michael Kenneth Williams, who I worked with on a show called ‘The Philanthropist’ for NBC. He was going to be doing this show called ‘Hap and Leonard.’ He was playing Leonard, and they were looking for somebody to play Hap.
I used to represent Mount Carmel College in cultural activities, and a friend in the team told me to try my hand at acting.
If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?
I was raised with ‘Laurel and Hardy’ and ‘I Love Lucy’ and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it’s the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you’re performing in your bedroom for yourself.
The thing that we need to move on from is any time you meet somebody, we always say, ‘Oh, this is my friend so-and-so. And, you know, he’s a Republican.’ You know, we always label each other as a liberal or as a conservative or as a Democrat or as a Republican.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
The waste basket is the writer’s best friend.
I like to think I’m a pretty good friend. I love having a good time, and I enjoy being able to share those good times with others.
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that’s how I began studying.
David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we’re kind of dad-friends through that, too.
I gave my archive to Emory University because there’s a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he’s the editor.
Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don’t have a sense of humor it just isn’t funny anymore.
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
I plan on being a friend, a good leader and a good governor over these next three years.
I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know they love me, but I didn’t make much of an effort.
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that’s not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
Everybody needs one essential friend.
My ‘something borrowed’ was a stunning pair of vintage diamond drop earrings from my friend Afshin at Estate Diamond Jewelry in N.Y.C. My ‘something blue’ was my tanzanite right hand ring that I bought for myself in Tanzania after climbing Mt Kilimanjaro.
I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.
Success? You can’t get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, ‘That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He’s horrible.’
Coming out was crucial to changing attitudes about gays and lesbians: will people feel differently about abortion if they know their mother, their aunt, or their friend had one?
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Over everything, over friendships or anything, is my kids – and obviously fighting for that belt is my kids’ future. It doesn’t sound too nice, but if my mom had the belt, she better give it up because my kids gotta eat. If I’m willing to fight my mom, imagine a good friend.
I was a very good friend of Rajiv Gandhi, and I had affection for Sonia as his wife.
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two.
I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
How do you bust out of the friend zone? It’s a horrible place to be when you end up there unintentionally with someone you have a romantic interest in.
When I was 18 years old, I moved into Neneh Cherry’s house in Kensal Rise with Judy Blame and our friend Michael Boadi.
There was a period in my life when alcohol was a good friend. Then there came a point when I realized that it was definitely not a good friend. I haven’t had a drink now for many years.
I met Rubina at a friend’s house during Ganpati. I checked her out as she looked resplendent in a sari. You generally see girls in western clothes and then you get to see that someone can look so stunning in a sari as well. So I saw her and I was like, wow she’s beautiful.
I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
I shared a dressing room with Pete Postlethwaite for 18 months, and he became a good friend. His discipline had an impact on me. You could have a laugh with him, but he was always on the ball when it came to work and very professional. Hopefully some of that rubbed off on me.
